11kV South Wales Switchgear Board Overhauled By Lucy Electric
Published 11 May 2021
Image Courtesy: Joe Nihill TMIET – Network Operations Director at Cophill Power Engineering Ltd
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Lucy Electric is a leader in secondary power distribution solutions with over 100 years’ industry experience. Specialising in high-performance medium voltage switchgear for utility, industrial and commercial applications, we enable the safe and reliable distribution of energy to homes and businesses worldwide.
The photos above are from an out of hours maintenance visit by Joe Nihill. For this particular maintenance the scope of works included a fully intrusive overhaul of a 11kV South Wales switchgear board consisting of South Wales switchgear C4X Oil Circuit Breakers (OCB)Â electrical insulating oil, replacement of each breakers electromechanical protection relay testing and a transfer of operational control document.
This allowed Joe and his team to control an isolated part of the customers network safely for the duration of the works.
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